The Centre normally holds 3 one-two day conferences in the academic year, and may host others, as well as offering public lectures. The Stephen Copley lecture is held annually, and CECS staff have given papers for the York Festival of Ideas.
Where the CECS community of staff and students gather to hear and debate the latest research about the eighteenth century. Centre research seminars are held regularly in term time on Tuesdays at 4.30pm in KG/07 at the King's Manor.
The CECS Postgraduate Forum is a student-lead interdisciplinary research group that meets to listen to and discuss papers from fellow York postgrads, students from other universities, and visiting professors, in a relaxed and friendly environment.
"But we find it to have been a mistake": Printing errors in the London Gazette, 1665-c.1720
Tuesday 27 February 2024
The Miseducation of Charlotte Lennox
Tuesday 6 February 2024
Ashes to Ashes: Death, Grief and Mourning in the Long Eighteenth Century
Saturday 3 February 2024
Tuesday 30 January 2024
Edgeworth and the Archive of Slavery
Tuesday 12 December 2023